How to Get Clients as a Travel Agent: 7 Rockstar-Approved Ways to Grow Your Business
These seven steps can help you attract new clients to your travel agent business and help you become more successful.
Top 10 Benefits Experienced Travel Agents Receive From Travel Planners International
As you approach your office or home office, you smile. You open the door, ready to face the day and make travel plans come to life. The phone rings, you answer, and it's a client who wants to book a weekend trip to Chicago. You're happy to help and handle the details. As you hang More
5 Ways for Travel Agents to Win New Travel Customers
That's it. It's over. Another work week is gone and you wonder: why didn't I gain new customers? You worked 8-10 hours a day non-stop, but only booked a handful of new travel. In fact, you probably worked longer hours than you should have. Yet you can't help thinking… Is it normal to work more More
What Travel Customers want from their Travel Agents
As a travel agent, you love travel and understand the industry and your niche. You read blogs, books, magazines, and newsletters and attend conferences. You finally launch your travel agency and what happens? No one calls, or books travel through your website. No interaction on your social media networks. It's enough to send you on More
Keys to Success for New Travel Agents
Have you thought about why you became a travel agent? Maybe it's because you love to travel and helping people facilitate their own adventure. Maybe you thought being a work at home travel agent was the right career move. Or maybe you thought it sounded glamourous. Is it all that you imagined? Or has running More
Key Components of an Effective Marketing Plan for Travel Agents
Admit it…your travel agency isn't growing like you thought it would. You're working your business and gaining new clients, and people say they like working with you, but you're not getting the results you want. Your phone rings but it's not non-stop. And traffic to your website is coming in at a trickle. And yet More
10 Ways Travel Planners International Provides Support for their Independent Agents
As you walk into your home office or unlock the door to your travel agency, you take a deep breath. Nervous energy pulsates through your body, and you wince as you sit in your chair and turn on your laptop. You log into your email and see a handful of confirmations. Your office is quiet More
What Everybody Ought to Know about Working with TPI
Maybe a friend of yours is a travel agent with a host travel agency that doesn't provide much support. Your friend calls to tell you that things are not going well. You listen and hear about the small commissions and lack of communication your friend's travel host agency offers. Continuing education opportunities and training on More
Top 5 Most Common Mistakes New Travel Agents Make
The most common mistakes made by new travel agents include not having the right partnerships, not providing contact information, not focusing on a niche travel area, mixing up geography and mixing business with personal life.
Top 10 Reasons New Travel Agents Join Travel Planners International
That's it. You've had it. You're about to give up. Another day is over and you wonder: why on earth did I only book only one family vacation? Being a work at home travel agent is not what you thought it would be. Could it be that you are not affiliated with a host travel More